IC 4518A
IC 4518A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4518A as it looked roughly 231 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
IC 4523Spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 4527Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 4445Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5516Elliptical41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4527Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4518BSpiral15 million ly
apartIC 4464Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 4445Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5516Elliptical41 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).